Is anyone else playing Infinite Craft? It’s an incredible time sink where you start with four basic things, then combine any two into something else,… and almost anything (in theory) can be made this way. It’s taken days, but I finally built “Interactive Fiction” itself. I hope I’m allowed to insert a screenshot here.
It’s kind of wonderful and terrifying at the same time, isn’t it?
I have seen a similar idea in a game called Doodle God but the scope of this project seems much bigger? With a name like Infinite Craft, seems like it.
Woohoo! An IF idea generator! Just for curiosity’s sake, how on earth did you make Emily Short appear?
Is there a writeup on how it works yet? There must certainly be some kind of generative concept-net-ish search behind it, but I haven’t seen any discussion.
I’ve seen a lot of discussion around this game recently, and played it a little. It’s really fun (and the other stuff the creator has made, like The Password Game, is also worth checking out. Most of it isn’t exactly interactive fiction, but there’s some shared DNA between cool interactive webpages and IF). I’ve heard it uses AI to generate the result of new combinations, and also keeps a database of all existing combinations. Not sure, though.
Yeah, Wikipedia says, “AI software, including LLaMA and Together AI, is used to produce new elements.”
The game doesn’t record how you made anything; it just remembers the results. Casual replaying shows that:
You may be surprised to learn that I still haven’t been able to coax out several basic concepts like Color or White or Man or Girl or Next. Those sorts of things are tricky. Also, many concepts are so strong they block easy access to related concepts. Japan + (almost any food) = Sushi, for example. To get Rice, I needed to do China + Corn, I think. Also, there’s weirdness like how Brexit + Exodus = Brexodus instead of Exit.
I just played a couple of minutes. It’s cool I got steam-engines before dinosaurs.
How on earth (or any other element) did you squeeze out The Gostak?
Darned if I know. I think at the time, I was throwing anything at Interactive Fiction to see what would combine with it. It doesn’t combine with other things easily. But I just learned now that Interactive Fiction + Paragraph = Choose Your Own Adventure. And apparently, I did Interactive Fiction + Script = Twine.
New discoveries:
There was a long discussion on hacker news a month ago, but most of it isn’t exactly technical. Infinite Craft | Hacker News
[Mummygod] + [Catholic] = [Pope]
I’ll let that sink in for a minute.
That’s blatantly inaccurate. The Pope isn’t God. He’s the mummy pontiff.
guys the whole hacking thing isn’t to shut down the game there is a hacker trying to hack the game to where he can make himself 
I’ve been trying this manually using chatGPT and starting with only Void. I’ve gotten up to Dark Matter and a whole bunch of physics stuff I don’t understand. No baryonic matter yet.
It sounds a little bit like Little Alchemy on mobile, but with a much bigger scope. That was definitely fun too, though it’s more fun near the start, than in the middle and later stages where you don’t have many things to combine anymore and you’re looking for more obscure combinations.
For what it’s worth, I’ve been trying to create a datafile of all my discoveries in the game, typing them all up manually, and it’s taking freakin’ forever and I never get caught up, but InfiniteCraft Report (Alphabetical) is one way to show my progress.
I’ll probably want to tinker with these signifiers, maybe use unbolded or strikethrough for silly and a golden border for 1st discoveries?
What happens if you cross Andrew Plotkin with Zarf?
Almost certainly it loops back to one of the two.
